Coldplay Piano Tabs: Clocks By Coldplay

Here are my coldplay piano tabs for one of the most popular coldplay songs, Clocks.

Clocks is fantastic to play on the piano. See how much Chris Martin enjoys playing it ...

Clocks by Coldplay is based on a very repetitive 'riff', or musical idea, so you only need to learn a few basic chords.

Coldplay Clocks Piano

Here are the opening chords to the song. The right hand is playing D major, A minor and E minor, as 'broken chords'- which means that the notes of the chord are played one after the other, rather than all at the same time.

You could even play the broken chords in both the left and right hand, which gives it an even stronger sound:

Just to show you what I mean, I have transcribed the same music but have turned the right hand into full block 'chords' - where the notes are played at the same time. See how the chords are still the same (D major, A minor an E minor)?

Then you have the middle section of the song where the piano plays on its own without the voice:

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